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“You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.”
“There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not decorate it; she infused...”
“You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.”
“But out of limitations comes creativity.”
“Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.”
“Innovation is creativity with a job to do.”
“Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”
“Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!”
“Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.”
“I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. 'And yet there is no one who communes with only one god,' he was saying, 'and the more a man lives in...”
“Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology ena...”
“Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.”
“Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.”
“Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: nam...”
“Sometimes I dont understand why my arms dont drop from my body with fatigue, why my brain doesnt melt away. I am leading an austere life, stripped of all external pleasure, and am sustained only by...”
“There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new ...”
“Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, th...”
“Many articles and books on creativity encourage us to 'think out of the box' and get rid of all the restrictions on our thinking. The trouble with this advice is that it is almost entirely wrong. I...”
“They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a bear. That made a...”
“Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.”
